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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

|| Paperback || Jonathan Safran Foer || Penguin

'UTTERLY ENGAGING. FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE IT IS A HUGELY INVOLVING READ...A HEARTBREAKER: TRAGIC, FUNNY, INTENSELY MOVING' SPECTATORIn a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key...The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of ...

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Fiesta

The Sun Also Rises

1994 || Paperback || Ernest Hemingway || Cornerstone

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves.

Powerful, intense...

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Great Expectations

2020 || Paperback || Charles Dickens || Penguin

It includes a map of Kent in the early nineteenth century, and appendices on Dickens's original ending and his working notes, giving readers an illuminating glimpse into the mind of a great novelist at work.Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language, whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books, including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers, have been adapted for stage and sc...

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The Scarlet Letter

2009 || Paperback || Nathaniel Hawthorne || Dover Publications Inc.

An "A" for "adultery" marks Hester Prynne as an outcast from the society of colonial Boston. Although forced by the puritanical town fathers to wear a bright red badge of shame, Hester steadfastly resists their efforts to discover the identity of her baby's father. The return of her long-absent spouse brings new pressure on the young mother, as the aggrieved husband undertakes a long-term plot to reveal Hester's partner in adultery and force him to share her disgrace.

Masterful in its symboli...

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Great Expectations

2022 || Paperback || Charles Dickens || Union Square & Co.

Pip is a poor orphan, a boy with "no expectations" being raised by his unkind sister and her husband in a small home on the marshes of Kent. But when Pip meets the bizarre Miss Havisham and her beautiful ward, Estella, he starts to yearn for a life as a gentleman. However, Pip will discover that wealth and honesty do not go hand in hand, and that kindness can be found in the most surprising places.

A love story, a mystery, and a sharp critique of upper-class English society, Great Expectation...

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Onder het ijs

2018 || Paperback || Ellen de Bruin || Prometheus || met inkijkexemplaar || ook als eBook

Het is 2004. Een groep klimaatwetenschappers doet onderzoek op een schip in het Noordpoolgebied. Een van hen is Bas Fretz, een bijna-volwassen vrouw van 21 die nog met Lego speelt. Zij is mee in plaats van haar hoogleraar, Reinier, nadat die onverwacht is overleden. Ze hield net iets te veel van hem en ze zou graag weten of hij ook iets voor haar voelde, maar daar komt ze natuurlijk nooit meer achter, nu hij dood is.

Daar zit ze dan, als junior onderzoeker, op dat schip in het poolijs, tusse...

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The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories

2006 || Paperback || Stephen Crane || Penguin

~The Red Badge of Courage," written in 1895 by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest of all American novels. This is a book about the Civil War, and one Union soldier's struggle with his inner demons as he prepares for, and fights his first battle.

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich

2016 || Paperback || Leo Tolstoy || Penguin

'It is only a bruise'. A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident... One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

1992 || Paperback || Ken Kesey || Penguin Putnam Inc, US

An international bestseller and the basis for the hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the defining works of the 1960s.



In this classic novel, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in...

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Washington Square

2010 || Paperback || Henry James || Oxford University Press

Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and is easily overwhelmed by the attentions of a handsome but penniless suitor. Her clever father is implacably opposed to the match, and the scene for a classic confrontation is set. This new edition of James's most enduringly popular work offers more information than any previous edition.